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hindsight bias
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people's tendency to be overconfident about whether they could have predicted a given outcome
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correlational research
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research in which there is not random assignment to different situations, or conditions, and from which psychological can just see whether or not there is a relationship between the variables
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Experimental research
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In social psychology, research in hich people are randomly assigned to different conditions, or situations, and from which it is possible to make very strong inferences about how these different conditions affect people's behavior
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Longitudinal study
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a story conducted over a long period of time with the same population, which is periodically assessed regarding a particular behavior
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Self-selection
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A problem that arises when the participant rather than the investigator, selects his or her level on each variable, bringing with this value unknown other properties that make causal interpretation of a relationship different
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Natural experiment
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Naturally occurring events or phenomena having somehwat different conditions that can be comprared with almost as much rigor as in experiments where the investigator manipulates the conditions
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Field experiment
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An experiment set up in the real world, usually with participants who are not aware that they are in a study of any kind
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External validity
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An experimental setup that closely resembles real-life situations so that results can safely be generalized to such situations
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Internal validity
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In experimental research, confidence that it is the manipulated variable only that could have produced the results
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Debriefing
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In prelimminary versions of an experiment, asking participants straightforwardly if they understoof the instructions found the setup to be reasonable, and so forth,. In later versions, debriefings are used to educate participants about the questions being studied
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Statistical significance
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a measure of the probability that a given result could have occured by chance
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Institutional review board (IRB)
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a university committee that examines research proposals and makes judgments about the ethical appropriateness of the research
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Informed consent
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Participants willingness to partipate in a procedure of research study after learning all relevant aspects about the procedure or study
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Deception research
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research in which the participants are misled about the purpose of the research or the meaning of something that is done to them
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